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timwaters / mapwarper

free open source public map georeferencer, georectifier and warper
http://mapwarper.net
MIT License
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Use Structured Data #194

Open nicolasmaia opened 3 years ago

nicolasmaia commented 3 years ago

It would be great if mapwarper directly added structured data statements with the coordinates instead of using unstructured text.

timwaters commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the issue, could you explain a little bit more?

There is an API which returns data in JSON format which might help?

nicolasmaia commented 3 years ago

Much like Wikidata, Commons now allows describing images with structured, machine-readable statements. See the structured data tab on this image, for example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comiss%C3%A3o_cient%C3%ADfica_francesa_do_tr%C3%A2nsito_de_Venus_de_1874_destinada_ao_Jap%C3%A3o.png

More details here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data

Related phabricator ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181145

timwaters commented 3 years ago

Thanks. So the question would be. How to do this, what should it look like, what needs to change.

is this just for the wikimedia mapwarper or for the main one?

In other words, from the title of the phabricator ticket, we need to answer: "Investigate how Wikimaps Warper can benefit from structured data". I currently do not know.